“I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.”
“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”
“Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.”
“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”
“I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)”
“He said, 'Life has hurt us again.'A worse hurt than those hurts we have already endured?'No,' he said, 'I suppose not.”